{No abstract available}
Advertising : 23 wordsA battle has been raging along 300-mile front since Monday morning, but these reports have yet to be confirmed from French sources, although it is stated that the famous Siegfried line of fortifications had been penetrated in a dozen places within the first 12 hours of the opening of hostilities. ...
Article : 323 wordsComplete mobilisation of the 78,000 militiamen in Australia in drafts of 10,000 was ordered last night by the Commonwealth Government. The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) stated that the ...
Article : 589 wordsThe United Press correspondent at Montreal states that a French radio exchange reports serious disturbances at Cologne and Dusseldorf, and in the Essen regions in Germany. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Social Democratic Party through the joint presidents, Otto Weis and Hans Vogel, has issued a manifesto to the ...
Article : 91 wordsIt is reported by the Copenhagen correspondent of the British United Press that an aerial combat took place off ...
Article : 138 wordsYesterday afternoon, bombers of the R.A.F. carried out successful attacks on vessels of the German fleet at Wilhelmshaven, the entrance to the Kiel Canal. One of the battleships was severely damaged by ...
Article : 319 wordsThe Greenock correspondent of the United Press reports that two of the rescue ships from the Athenia have arrived. Many of the injured were taken to hospital. According to a reliable witness, the submarine fired a torpedo ...
Article : 750 wordsThe Governor-General has refused the request of General Hertzog for a dissolution and a general election. It is understood that General Smuts may be invited to form a Government. ...
Article : 504 wordsThe Greek steamer Rosti, from Antwerp, proceeding to Leningrad, struck a mine. There were 29 aboard, but no casualties resulted and ...
Article : 49 wordsAn official communique issued at Warsaw admits that the Polish forces had to retire from Grudecenz and Bydgoszcz, key cities of the Corridor, after severe fighting. Polish troops were forced to abandon Bromberg at the ...
Article : 790 wordsThe Polish Embassy in London confirms the use of poison-gas by the air raiders in Silesia; and has asked for ...
Article : 52 wordsUnconfirmeu radio reports received by two newsagencies in New York stated that Paris was being raided by German planes at 3.10 p.m. ...
Article : 137 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Wed 6 Sep 1939, Page 1
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: